A Pontiac pension board's Friday evening workshop was rescheduled after public notice of the meeting wasn't given in accordance with the Open Meetings Act.

"I've been trying to get an agenda all week to understand what we're going to be discussing," said City Finance Director John Naglick, who sits on the Pontiac General Retirement System board.

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Naglick said he couldn't find a notice for the meeting posted at City Hall, online or elsewhere on Friday, and contacted the pension fund's office in Auburn Hills. The board had been scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. Friday.

A retirement staff member then posted a meeting notice at City Hall on Friday afternoon, with the time and date rescheduled to 3 p.m. Saturday.

The Open Meetings Act requires 18 hours' notice for public meetings such as the pension board workshop.

"Quite frankly, it inconvenienced a lot of people," Naglick said.

A retirement office staff member said the lack of public notice was an oversight and that staff had forgotten to post the meeting notice.

There had been extensive discussion at the pension board's last meeting about what date and time was convenient for board members to attend the workshop.

Ironically, the 11-member pension board was restored in February after Oakland County Circuit Judge Rae Lee Chabot agreed that Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel violated the Open Meetings Act when he reorganized the pension board and cut the number of trustees from 11 to five.

Chabot granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by the City of Pontiac Retired Employees Association after Schimmel issued an order that reorganized the pension board.

The $450-million, 150-percent-funded pension plan's surplus has become a point of contention as Schimmel moves to set aside health insurance for nearly 1,000 of the city's retirees in order to wipe out the city's $6 million annual structural deficit.

The emergency manager has urged the pension board to study ways of using its surplus to pay for retiree health care.